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[Remarque] Mononcle Bob aime-t-il toujours autant la GPL?

Je sais qu'on est dans un "pays" extrèmement bilingue, mais les
articles en anglais ça me fatigue...
C'est quoi des citations ?
Impossible de résumer ?
...
>Mononcle Bob aime-t-il toujours autant la GPL?
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>Red Hat now has 90 percent of its 630 employees working to lure
>corporations looking to move their computing platform from expensive
>systems running on the rival Unix operating system to Linux, widely
>considered to be the more cost-effective choice.
>
>But it might be the cost-effective part that comes back to haunt Red Hat.
>With the Linux operating system available for free, Red Hat has struggled
>to find a way to secure paying customers. After a year of adjusting the
>focus at Red Hat away from smaller businesses and e-commerce applications,
>the company now needs to prove that it can translate Linux's growing
>popularity into stronger sales.
>
>(...)
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>Most analysts were disappointed in Red Hat's quarterly numbers reported
>last month. Sales were $18.6 million, down 16 percent from the year-ago
>quarter, and losses were wide. Wall Street reacted, sending the stock down
>nearly 23 percent percent during the past three weeks. Shares closed
>Thursday at $5.22, down 2 cents.
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>Meanwhile, the company's top executives have been selling Red Hat shares,
>which doesn't typically boost investor confidence. In late March, Chief
>Executive Officer Matthew Szulik filed to sell 425,000 of his shares after
>filing to sell 600,000 shares in February, according to documents filed
>with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Company co-founder and
>Chairman Robert F. Young has unloaded nearly 700,000 shares so far this
>year, part of a plan in which he sells shares automatically on a daily
>basis.
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>But Tiemann, who said 80 percent of his net worth is in Red Hat stock, said
>it's a matter of portfolio diversification, not a lack of confidence in Red
>Hat. :) Me semble avoir déjà entendu ça. :)
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>In fact, the companies who might stand to make the most out of the Linux
>migration are the ones selling the servers that run Linux -- the IBMs,
>Dells and Compaqs of the world. Red Hat, meanwhile, is left to craft a
>business model based on services -- a much less profitable business than
>traditional, non-open-source software.
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>http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=RHAT&d=c&k=c1&a=v&p=s&t=3m&l=on&z=m&q=l
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